Right or wrong ideas and suggestions are better than bashing.

The only thing that will help car count is to substantially lower costs When it cost $2500 bucks a night to run a competitive regional pavement midget or 3-4 K for a national show and not much less for dirt the amount of people who can afford to do that for fun is very limited. That is why you have the car count at Salem like this past week. The threat of killing a car at Salem is too great and a competitive pavement roller is $25K new.

People who don't believe that are living in the past when home built cars could be welded up and run week in and week out and motors run an entire season, not possible now, although at least you are assured to make the main with these car counts.

Think of it this way for the same amount as the net costs after winnings for running the entire national sprint or midget series an owner could just buy a couple of dozen new Ford F150 s and leave them at the race track and have a lot less hassle. These teams are mostly run out of the pockets of businessmen who love racing and are in it for the love of the game. In times like these love takes a backseat to cash.

Good Word - there IS a market for the "big event" open wheel race.

This is off topic, but Klepper did a mavelous job on the WoO SPEED broadcast. Congratulations.

Agreed and his deal has done a lot more for USAC as well as all sprint/midget/ open wheel racing than almost anyone by creating a solid high quality media outlet

I hope your kidding because I was just kidding also.

Oh heck yeah. The only person I want banned is . WHAT! You can't say okay his name rhymes with bridgeon and pidgeon :2:

Thanks guys for the kind words... just wish we were still there shooting tonights finale.

Spridge, Russ is right about Staab. Greg was out here at the Williams Grove National Open making contacts and getting the ball rolling before anyone ever heard the name Kevin Miller associated with USAC. I know this because I picked Staab up at his hotel which is close to my house & took him to the track.

Jeff, believe me, I know how it all went down. Kevin Miller doesn't do scheduling, for the most part. I was only pointing out that those additions have been made under the current regime. Whether he wants to be included or not, Greg was a part of that for a while.

BTW, what name was associated with the sponsor of the three richest sprint car races of all time (And by "sprint car," I don't mean "winged sprint car")? Hint: They were all at Eldora.

Oh, you mean the one who's parent company is now owned by Fiat because of horribly bad business decisions and had to take government bailout money just to be able to be sold to Fiat?